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Re: Epoxy: What about the basement
By:Brian Nystrom
Date: 12/14/2011, 6:53 am
In Response To: Re: Epoxy: What about the basement (Bill Hamm)

: My shop is in my basement and I never smell a thing in the house.
: The fumes from epoxy are nothing like polyester, thankfully.

When you get down to it, epoxy doesn't have what I would think of as fumes at all, just a relatively mild scent. It doesn't contain solvents like varnish does and it doesn't contain styrene like polyester/vinylester resin.

: Someone here, forget who sorry, had a good idea of using a small
: fan, like a bathroom exhaust fan in the basement exhausting to
: the outside to draw a tiny vacuum on the basement so that any
: airflow would be into the basement rather than into the house.
: Should totally eliminate any smells seeping into the house as
: well as keeping the dust out of the house too.

If the space is heated, all you need to do it to crack a window. Escaping warm air will draw in cool, fresh air. That's what I've done when varnishing in my basement and I never smell it upstairs.

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Epoxy: winter cold
Scott Shurlow -- 12/13/2011, 7:30 am
Re: Epoxy: winter cold
John Messinger -- 12/13/2011, 7:57 am
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Jay Babina -- 12/13/2011, 8:15 am
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Scott Shurlow -- 12/13/2011, 8:33 am
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Bob Beaullieu -- 12/13/2011, 12:57 pm
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Jay Babina -- 12/16/2011, 9:11 am
Re: Epoxy: What about the basement
Scott Shurlow -- 12/13/2011, 3:28 pm
Re: Epoxy: What about the basement
Bob Beaullieu -- 12/13/2011, 4:07 pm
Re: Epoxy: What about the basement
Bill Hamm -- 12/14/2011, 2:24 am
Re: Epoxy: What about the basement
Brian Nystrom -- 12/14/2011, 6:53 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/15/2011, 2:47 am
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les cheeseman -- 12/14/2011, 11:42 am
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ancient kayaker -- 12/14/2011, 3:39 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/15/2011, 2:50 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/15/2011, 2:49 am
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Mike Savage -- 12/15/2011, 9:00 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/18/2011, 2:44 am
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Mike Savage -- 12/19/2011, 5:04 pm
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Roy Martin -- 12/15/2011, 5:53 am
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les cheeseman -- 12/15/2011, 9:51 am
Re: Epoxy: What about the basement *PIC*
Yostwerks -- 12/15/2011, 11:49 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/18/2011, 2:46 am
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Kirk Fredericks -- 12/15/2011, 1:27 pm
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Bill VerSteeg -- 12/15/2011, 2:22 pm
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Paul Sylvester -- 12/17/2011, 8:50 am